How Does Cloud Hosting Function?

What is cloud web hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's computing, Internet and web hosting terminology. Nonetheless, just a select few actually can tell what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very long tale short, we will first notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote File Storage Exclusively.

1. Providing a remote data storage service, which involves one single file storage appliance for all users, does not turn any given web hosting firm into an actual cloud web hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel hosting companies call the ability to supply remote data storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for individual or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting service, based on a one-single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the other components of the entire hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the whole hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely hard. Very few hosting distributors can actually do it.

2. It Includes Domains, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage solely. We are discussing a hosting service, serving many domains, online portals, electronic mails, etc., are we not?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than providing simply remote file storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The mail server(s) must be devoted exclusively to the email linked services. Carrying out nothing else than these specific tasks. There might be only one or maybe a whole pack of e-mail servers, determined by the total load produced. To have an authentic cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud web hosting services provider will support multiple data center facility sites on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud web hosting packages provider:

dns1.misx-network.net

dns2.misx-network.net

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your web hosting distributor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you notice a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of DNS plainly indicates that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical machine handles all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), website files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Interpretation of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined simply to a remote file storage service, as numerous hosting firms wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting vendors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, as they merely offer file hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems indeed quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one small segment of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, probably a bunch of new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will spring up out of nowhere.